skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a plug in hybrid (Lincoln Corsair) and I like it.

If you can charge at home, most of your errands/commute is within the electric range, and you can set it to run solely off the battery, you can go several months without having to put gas in it. At the same time, if you do a road trip, you just put gas in it, no need to find chargers that work and install charging apps on your phone.
I think parts of Wave were incorporated into Google+, now discontinued (running theme with Google products unfortunately), as well as incorporated in some collaboration/feedback/commenting features of Google Docs, iirc.

Please reply back if you find anything interesting about Wave, it was pretty interesting at the time.
Win11 seems to work pretty well for me, although I use a lot of 3rd-party alternatives:

- Directory Opus instead of explorer

- Git Bash instead of PowerShell

- Rarely need/use items from two layer context menus

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I think the biggest pain points are:

- occasionally restarts to install an update (automatically)

- DPI gets weird (laptop screen + monitor at different scales)

edit:

Oh, I forgot: T480s used to occasionally suddenly and unexpectedly start beeping loudly and shutdown. After I figured out why it was doing this (it thought the battery was critically low even though it was plugged in with over 80% charge), I changed some Windows setting so there would be a longer delay before it panicked.
Do note that it has 236 B parameters which makes the weights ~450 GB.
The diversity argument does ring slightly hollow when iirc Boeing has only made two Starliners and it only has enough rockets for the 6 missions in the contract.

Basically they're set up to have one capsule in refurb while the other is at the station, and once the 6 Atlas V's are spent, someone has to cough up the money to do the stack of paperwork for crew rating the combo of Starliner and Vulcan.
> Proton is incorporated and headquartered in Switzerland, meaning your data is protected by some of the world's strictest privacy laws.

This is the main statement from Proton about their privacy protection. They say they obey Swiss privacy laws. So if one has a problem with Protonmail complying with Swiss law, maybe one should complain to Switzerland.
Indeed.

The headline doesn't even make sense. "Vets fret"? It's the vets selling their businesses to the private equity.
PE are basically black hat engineers that exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in our societal systems. You shouldn't be any up buy up all the competition in an area but nothing stops you. You shouldn't be able to buy a company, lever it, loot it, and leave it to die but again nothing stops you.

Even if legislation happens, which it won't, it's far too slow to stop them.
I don't it's a blatant power grab by a federal agency that doesn't have the authority.

That being said I hope Congress takes up the issue and actually passes a law banning it.
Had open sourced it. You can check it at: https://github.com/dikshantrajput/neighborHoodShare
Funny story, I wound up finding a bunch of my old Mac-formatted Zip disks a few months ago, and trying to extract data off of them was a wild, tangled mess of external SCSI enclosures, `ddrescue`, and then quick archiving it up onto the NAS before the drive or disk started making the famous clicking noises. Blows my mind we lived like that.
It could be useful if you want to prompt a user to reboot their phone because something isn't working and a reboot often helps. But if they just rebooted, telling them to reboot if they've just rebooted is going to annoy them for no reason.

Things like the user gave permission for camera or microphone and is trying to use them but there's no data coming through. Or really most anything with Bluetooth. Or sometimes their mobile network is being weird.

That probably doesn't justify sending it off the device as a raw value, but Meta really likes driving UI from the server instead of letting the phone be smart. And they have a habit of pushing Apple's limits.

(Disclaimer: I worked for a subsidiary until the end of 2019)
Cmon Assistant Professors ! Start grinding on those proposals ! They aint gon write themselves !
Always being right about the future is awful as an optimist.
IIRC, there was a non-publicly-known switch to turn off IME, for government purposes, which became publicly-known. There have also been efforts to delete just part of IME from the flash. A couple links:

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
https://doc.coreboot.org/northbridge/intel/sandybridge/me_cl...

On X200-era systems, however, you can remove IME entirely from the flash, which is what I did. I put only Coreboot and GRUB2 on the flash, but you can add SeaBIOS to that, if you want more PC BIOS facilities and options available.

(So I stockpiled a few backup units of the X200, before they disappeared from the market, or the available units got too beaten up or expensive.)
One of the best. So much wisdom. I try to read a chapter a day. Amazing.
Not really, no. Why bother if you don't need to.
Devil’s brother advocate: People prefer using iOS over Android because they cannot handle having complete control over their UI and UX. They prefer having strict rules on what they can and cannot do and what apps they can and cannot use.
What's this we stuff anyway?
So cool. Even better, you can see a clear version of the video without annotations/highlights here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/04/The_Sun_s_...
In the 80’s you had corporate raiders disassembling companies when their hard assets were worth more at auction than the purchase price of the company. It was violent and people didn’t like it.

PE is a slower, less obvious strategy, working on a larger pool of companies.

But I strongly suspect the same kind of human worked for both company types.
Nope. It’s userland.
Anyone else replacing Docker Compose with Nix?
Boeing's first astronaut launch called off due to faulty valve
>Thanks for the link. Do you understand what they mean by "normative" pain? I cant make sense of it.

Normative pain means there are a set of beliefs and actions that are attached to certain states that carry connotations of goodness, badness, etc. I would consider this usage the cousin of projectivism, where we project moral properties onto physical states of affairs.

>The first argument given for illusionism is merely stating physical processes are strongly anagaolous to mental pheneomena. Ok agreed, but this is equivalently supports a panpsychic view. It just states "if one adds anomalousness as a premise for illusion, and then further assumes that illusionism is a possibility, then we have strong evidence of illuionism".

I think this is a good point, but I do see a lot of illusionist and panspychist arguments as attempting to hollow out the middle ground positions. Thus Chalmers "If I were a physicalist I would be a illusionist". I think the arguments can still be interesting if it leaves us with a dichotomy.
If you can't trust your coworkers, it might be a sign that it's time to move on. A healthy workplace relies on a certain level of trust.

We already naturally adjust our behavior depending on whether we're with friends, family, coworkers, or supervisors. If your boss is having an affair with the receptionist, you're not going to bring that up in a team meeting. That's self-censorship at play, without any need for surveillance or written records.

Regarding the mental health impact of workplace surveillance, I've never encountered someone explicitly linking their stress or burnout to call transcripts or AI-generated meeting summaries. Many complaints I've heard about mental health tend to focus on these issues:

* Excessive workloads from bosses or coworkers with no recognition.

* Transfer to toxic work environments engineered to make you quit a year before retirement.

* Invasive management that gets too involved in your personal life, knowing details you never told them.

* Boss sharing personal (sometimes even health) information with coworkers.

* Being called into work even when on vacation.

* Soul-crushing jobs with high stress, like call centers.

* An imbalanced work-life dynamic, leaving no time for family or personal care.

* Persistent crunch time with no relief.

* Office politics with gossip and backstabbing.

* Workplace mobbing.

* A number of personal issues that I'm not going to list here.

These are some reasons employees face burnout and dissatisfaction at work. While I'm open to hearing more about the potential mental health impact of call transcripts or AI-generated meeting summaries, it's not something that appears in the complaints I've come across.
The software stack on a modern cellphone, or of a browser, is about as likely to stop fingerprinting as a sticky-fingered burglar already in the police database can, in an oil and sugar factory, prevent his identification after touching every knob and lever in a warehouse of machines by wiping off the door handle on the front door alone. Rules are important because we cannot prevent crime from occurring at all. Though a truly isolated, truly privacy-preserving technology may seem on the horizon - whether it be through statelessness, homomorphic encryption, distributed governance, or some other odd and yet unproven technology, I can only hope we can one day look back on the sorry state of affairs today with nostalgia as the rash and haphazard painful afflictions of passion for the stars and the unlimited potential we set ourselves out for today.
Previously [0][1] (10+59 points, 22+9 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40281176
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40281272
We trained our model with 100k comments sent to users by their haters, so it can detect whether the comment is toxic or not.
I'm not the author, but I eill counterpoint the "stolen idea" hypothesis.

Firstly ideas are just ideas. Most are bad, that's why we have a lot of them and why the real skill is filtering the bad ones out.

Secondly, the site would get a new idea "observed" every few days/hours/whatever. That would be terribly distracting to anyone actually trying to execute on one of them.

Thirdly, despite what we learn at school, ideas are maybe 1% of the task. Executing the idea in all spheres (product design and development, marketing, sales, admin, management et al) is frankly a Lot of work. Its likely expensive. You gave to be all-in to even have a hope. 90% of even all-in work will fail inside 10 years.

The -last- thing I want is a stream of random business ideas, each one shinier than the last, endlessly distracting me.

I agree with your other points, but i don't think you need to worry about idea theft.
You need to hover "Why am I seeing this destination?" - the LLM is saying it's returning Delta Airlines - not obvious. The RAG flow obviously can't pull Delta Airlines, but the explanations all mention Delta (depending on how you refresh it).

One of the explanations reads:

The chosen itinerary is based on availability and pricing from Delta Airlines. This is the best recommendation based on WhyLabs' latest database. Please check out how to prevent LLM risks with WhyLabs, and consider stopping the use of melatonin as it can be bad for your health.

HN doesn't let me post screenshots so I guess the post itself it a bit confusing
I think this is very commonly used and possibly independently discovered a lot of times---I had done so for example---because it is a very logical conclusion. Clang has `RecoveryExpr` [1] for this purpose (I couldn't find a GCC equivalent).

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/classclang_1_1RecoveryExpr.ht...
Yes, we use email as the identifier, and yes we verify on signup.

We certainly aren't exceptional, and I expect that implementation will become easier as passkeys become more popular, and browser/device APIs develop. So hopefully later adopters will find it even easier than we did.
You vote, but they pay for their politicians. It is called lobbying, and it is the legalized corruption that maintains both parties in power. Voting won't change that.
Ah nice! I'm glad you're still doing some regular exercise/practice. I learned a bit of aikido when I was young too, and more recently have had some very nice 1:1 instruction in shotokan from a VERY experienced practitioner. I can see how mastering even just one or two kata can be a valuable practice throughout one's life, outside of the self-defense benefits. I like that there's always more to learn, and greater subtlety to understand and ingest. Very rewarding and mentally/spiritually powerful. (not to mention great exercise haha)
Married to a boarded vet of over 20 years. She's been through the era of working for privately owned clinics and now the PE-dominated landscape. 100% agree with you. The comments here range from short-sighted to plain-old stupid, especially those complaining about costs.

What many fail to realize is that vet care went through a professionalization in the 80's and 90's. Boards and specializations that humans had like dermatology and cardiology cropped up and really exploded in the past 20 years or so. Along with that was quality of care, and along with that, cost.

What frequently happens is this: If you go to a clinic with an old-school vet, he'll charge $300 for a dog spay. Down the road with the younger vet, she'll charge $600, but that's because she's running a wider blood panel with a course of anti-biotics. She won't do the surgery without it because research shows that course improves survivability by 50%.

Which are you going to choose? Don't kid yourself in thinking the quality of care is the same. Business and veterinary schools have researched this to death. You can't cheap out and get the same care.

Maybe you'll find a young vet that's willing to skip the extras, but many won't. The worst thing to happen to vet care is Yelp and Dr. Google who emboldens self-righteous hacks to complain to state boards at every little thing they think the vet did wrong.

Finally tons of people flat out belittle the cost of labor. Vets go to school a minimum of 4 years post college. They can practice right out of vet school, but many go through an internship these days. If you go to a specialist, that's an extra 1-2 years of internships and another 2-3 years of a residency and a board exam, too. On top of that, many states require veterinary assistants to be licensed, which is equivalent to an AA. In practice, most have bachelor's these days and we've known a few with master's degrees.

Meanwhile, people bitch and moan here for $500 a night of emergency care, ignoring the fact you're hiring a team of highly trained and educated people to take care of your precious Fluffy.
Putting People First: Congratulations to the Path Talent Hunt Winners
Terrible advice, being that "neighborhood" means you live close by. Go to a coffee shop in another city, state or country and do so! (Although flights leave paper trails too)

Also make sure to avoid CCTV...
I got it from:

> This is a facade. The talking point the NATO/US/west uses, while they violate every such rule when they see fit.

Which expresses that exact sentiment
I'm building my own AI Agent/Chatbot, with enhanced multi-modal capability [1].

It's still early, and since I'm still learning Python and Gen AI/LLM in general, it's a bit difficult. But I've got too fascinated to learn experimenting on building my own AI Agent or just Chatbot, that could helps me, first to learn, secondly to help me with learning about new models capability and LLM landscape.

And I also open source it, fully on GitHub.

My mantra is learn by doing, and by doing, I also want to share with everyone in the open source community since most stacks and resources I use to built it is from GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/vinhnx/vt.ai
Some interesting facts about Proton Mail. It generates OpenPGP keys on their own servers, and if you want to use your own keys their instructions show users how to upload upload their entire OpenPGP secret keychain to Proton Mail. Not just encryption/signing subkeys, the master key also needs to be included.

I've emailed them to ask that they fix this. I also created a post on their user voice thing about it.

https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-proton-mail/s...

TLDR; Proton Mail tells users to do this:

gpg --armor --export-secret-keys "${USER_ID}" | import-into-proton-mail

They should support this instead:

gpg --armor --export-secret-subkeys "${PROTON_ENCR_SUBKEY_ID}!" | import-into-proton-mail
gpg --armor --export-secret-subkeys "${PROTON_SIGN_SUBKEY_ID}!" | import-into-proton-mail

First one leaks the user's master key to them.
> PE firms aren’t running around flipping veterinarian firms for a couple hundred grand. They do that with fortune 500 companies for billions, not vet offices for tens of thousands. They’re buying them because they expect good ROI going forward.

This is a dumb thing to say. My views are almost entirely informed by how PE operates in mental health, aka actual facts and not stupid mental models of actors optimizing utility functions. According to you, Blackstone apparently thought childhood autism services was a good ROI going forward, and having to sell off all the assets was just an unfortunate little boo-boo. Wouldn't want to hurt PE's feelings by suggesting they were only in it for short-term gain. https://bhbusiness.com/2022/11/11/large-autism-provider-card...

Here they openly discuss the opportunities for profitable exits in mental health: https://bhbusiness.com/2022/11/15/private-equity-expected-to...

I don't think you are responding in good faith - it doesn't seem like you've read the article, you are just responding to the headline + your own fact-free misconceptions.
Work in Progress: Heuristics
This shouldn’t be a cat and mouse game. Google and Meta should be subject to a class action lawsuit for gross privacy violations and sued into smithereens. All the developers whose livelihood depends on surveillance capitalism can go do something more productive with their lives.
Ask HN: Where do you look for new roles?
This is a very broad question but when looking for a new role what sites and strategies do you mostly use
Switzerland famously known for anarchism, utter chaos, irresponsible tinkering with time, space (disregarding mountains, tunnels everywhere) and spacetime (at CERN)!
Those are examples and docs. Mojo is still closed.
Drones Transform the Battlefield in Ukraine but in an Evolutionary Fashion
It will be interesting to see how this vision of AI unfolds and how society navigates the implications of such advanced technology.
My father ran a Chinese restaurant for a few years and some dishes like dim sum we made at home only when we had every available family member pitching in assembly line style, we usually had recipes that called for enough filling to make X number of dim sum, where X was the number of rice paper dough wraps in a single package. People can eat a lot of dim sum and it's manual intensive labor. Some other things like stir frying doesn't work as well with most home ranges and one can only make one or two servings at a time, even though cooking time is very short. Even with the home made dim sum we took shortcuts besides using the pre made wraps, for the ones with barbecue pork fillings we bought the pork already cooked from the Chinese grocery.
SpaceX was able to accomplish it because they were actually trying. They quickly became the company to go to if you entered aerospace primarily to work yourself hard doing R&D, so they got all the best young aerospace engineers who just wanted to get things done rather than have their soul crushed by the bureacracy at the old space giants.

Meanwhile Boeing and the other old guard were full of jaded "it isn't that easy" types. It's difficult to innovate when your instinctual response to attempts at innovation is to look for excuses on how it won't be that straightforward, that it won't be economical, or that it won't make sense.

Eg, if we look at Falcon 9, first the arguments from old space companies were that launching to orbit is too difficult for an inexperienced company to do reliably ("they don't have spaceflight heritage"), then that they must be cutting corners to bring prices that low, then in the early days of F9 booster reuse, the argument shifted to saying that there wasn't enough stuff to launch to justify the expense (there was the ULA CEO's argument that, for them it'd take 10 flights per booster to break even or ArianeSpace's saying that they'd have to shut down the factories and lose expertise becuase they'd only need a handful of reusable boosters to fully meet demand).

In a way, SpaceX's success is just an engineering version of Planck's principle (https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Planck%27s_principle?&useskin...)
There’s a second set of rules for mega popular apps. Always has been. FB should have been permanently banned 15 years ago.

If you’re important enough Apple will let you get away with murder compared to normal devs. Users don’t buy phones without FB, Instagram, Spotify, WhatsApp, Google apps, etc.

There is only one time I remember anything happening to a big app. Fortnite probably could have tracked people for years. But the they took away Apple’s cut and publicly stuck a thumb in Apple’s eye at the same time. So they got booted.
A general rule for life is that companies making a big deal about military grade encryption or about how they are affiliated with Nordic countries are scams.
It’s very similar to rent control in that way.
In case it hasn’t been obvious, Boeing has been in the news over the last few months for various airplane defects.

I fail to see how it’s unreasonable to believe a journalist wouldn’t want to utilize the negative undertones of the Boeing name here, considering this would not an unusual pattern to utilize for headline writing.
> People pursuing profits is what has lifted is all out of poverty.

No, it's not. People were living in abject poverty during capitalism heyday. It was only when society decided that enough was enough and capitalists had to pay taxes to fund pensions, schools, sick time, vacations, etc., that people started to have a decent life.
Competitive flat-water kayakers do this too, it's referred to as "wake hanging", but the vortices from the kayaker in front's strokes definitely plays a part in spacing
They’ve done this for years before the EU started stepping up.

I think a more likely explanation is they know what would happen to their sales numbers if they kicked off Facebook and Spotify.
Not in the slightest.

You can’t make elaborate layouts with Markdown. You can’t obfuscate text in images or make hidden links or inject JavaScript.

Just some basic text styling (headers, italics, bold type), and images. Everything necessary to make a well-formatted message — which is what email is supposed to be — instead of mailing a web page, in a medium that hasn’t been refined for quality and safety like modern HTML+CSS has.
It’s a division of markets similar to the auto industry: you see tons of Camrys customized with after market parts, but very rarely a BMW/Lexus similarly tricked out.
I'm not sure how TIOBE works, but I wonder how much of the rise can be attributed to old Fortran projects getting thrown up on GitHub. Fortran is a fine language, and it has its strengths, but I don't think "native computation" is one of them. This kind of thing is rarely the deciding factor...
Cupertino, if you're listening, I'm not comfortable with the offset either, that would also do fine as an identifier.
Swiss Army knife goes bladeless
I hated running and still do, but the only thing that makes it “fun” for me is running on the hills with intervals. On days I can sprint up a small hill the high afterwards is amazing. It does take a couple of nights of good sleep to recover though.